A blogsite offering entertaining daily oddities since January 2020. There are now over fifteen hundred posts in these four years. Images -- photographic, computer-simulated and poetic -- are drawn from daily life as well as from poems and wordplay grouped by topic on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense". The poetry displayed is all original (as are the song-lyrics), although portions evolved through rigorous editing on a collaborative website.
February 15, 2022
FEB 15, poets' corner: the poet's family
February 14, 2022
FEB 14, wildlife of the Carolina lowcountry: consolation provided by Nature
photo-collage in honour of Dr. JJ, whose loves included the outdoor life ...
brown pelican closeup |
egret and shadow |
great egret launching |
two buddies |
waterfowl trio (great egret stalking slowly, snowy egret walking, tricolored (Louisiana) heron fishing) |
hooded mergansers: very cute, but quite skittish little ducks |
great blue heron |
aerial coyote, on guard at a seafood vendor |
green anole, displaying its orangy-pink dewlap |
February 13, 2022
FEB 13, commercial product: Smart Garden Gnome
Authors' Note: A garden gnome is an ersatz creature, often assumed to be of below average intelligence and technical sophistication. Here the author reimagines the garden gnome as a technically adept home protection device, suited to the western American setting.
Our range of domestic and commercial products is somewhat limited, but you might want to review our unusual prospective gifts on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.
February 12, 2022
FEB 12, limericks by 'Dr. JJ'
'Dr. JJ', as many readers would have ascertained, did not seem to be a big fan of 'the 45th'.
February 11, 2022
FEB 11, at heart: Jack Sprat and his bypass grafts
February 10, 2022
FEB 10 (2022), singable satire: The Animals sing Lewis Carroll's "JABBERWOCKY"
"Dr. JJ" enjoyed playing the electric guitar among other instruments. He frequently enlivened major family events by performing parody songs written for the occasion, using base songs from the golden oldies period. His favorite song vehicle was undoubtedly the folk-rock classic "The House of the Rising Sun" (1964) as recorded by the British band The Animals. (A YouTube version is found HERE.)
"Jabberwock", Giorgio's copy, drawing by John Tenniel, illustrator of Carroll's books |
To review the rest of the lyrics and chord-charts, follow this link to our song-blog "Silly Songs and Satire" by clicking HERE.
For historic interest, here is a slide used as part of an open-mike at a ukulele club when the concept of this pastiche was first entertained.
February 9, 2022
FEB 9, exotic destination: Hawaii vs. Haida Gwaii
JJ, age 14, dancing with his mother |
FEB 9, insects: termites
February 7, 2022
FEB 7, pathos and poetry (gun control verse): concealed carry
You can review our entire poetic outpouring on this topic by proceeding to a post on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'; click HERE.
February 6, 2022
FEB 6: palinku (poetic novelty): sports
This blog-post is in honour of 'Dr. JJ', whose love of life included satire, the music of poetry, and of course, both participatory and spectator sports ...
In this post, we will continue with a novel form of poetic wordplay. Inspired by Japanese haiku poetry, this new form is used for a terse verse with a total of 17 syllables displayed on three lines. Unlike its classic Japanese analogue, this concoction does not mandate the precise distribution of the syllables among the three lines, but does stipulate that each word in the poem be included in a palindromic phrase or sentence in English (i.e. one that can be read either forwards or backwards).
To help the reader discern the origin of the lyrics, each palindrome (generally occupying one of the three lines of the poem) has been color-coded.
And, just in case you have forgotten what palindromes are about, your blogsite hosts have arranged a serial set of brief lessons on the topic ('Political Palindromes'); click HERE to start.
February 5, 2022
FEB 5, inspired by Ogden Nash: a brief saga -- 'a gnat and a nit'
A version of this poem by Giorgio can also be found on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". There you can find appended some examples of the wonderful limericks that were indisputably written by Ogden Nash. CLICK to proceed to that version if you are interested.
FEB 5, reptiles: brown (Bahaman) anoles
Further reading? See this interesting article:
two hippy-haired bros, Dec 1976 |